June 23, 2005

I complained about the over sensitive, strobe light house effect of the auto-spot and they replaced the whole contraption with a low wattage bulb that’s on all the time and doesn’t try to signal ships in the harbor. Now that’s service.

We went to Michelle’s. That’s a pretty good restaurant. I had the Steak Tartar, as you’d expect, and Kim had the Fois Gras, again, no surprises there. The tartar was interesting. Some sort of tomato hot sauce, like a fra diablo or fra diavolo. It reminded me of a spicy shrimp coctail sauce.

Then I had the Lobster Thermador. That was pretty good. Kim had something else. I forgot. No surprises. Then we ordered the souffle. I tell you, I think I’ll have to bag of chocolate next time. That sounded great. The souffle was good but I thought I was ordering a Godiva Chocolate souffle and it turned out only to be the liquer. Bad move on my part. Bag of chocolate. Just keep saying it to yourself.

Three nights was more than enough time to see Bar Harbor. So this is my last missive, my absolutely last epistle from Bar Harbor. We’ve enjoyed it and have taken notes. I’m def. going to do that cold butternut squash soup. We’ll never just do a buffet.

We didn’t see Acadia and next time that’ll be top of the agenda. I also didn’t get to see puffins so that’ll be up there. When are we coming back? Hmm. With the workshop schedule expanding, winter workshops, fiber art workshops, etc. Probably not for a long time. This winter we have other plans.

It’ll be good to get back to Greenville and some quiet. It’s quiet here in a touristy way. 😉 Spot has enjoyed himself and the staff loved it.

Well, this is The Keepers signing off from The Opera House in Bar Harbor Maine.